Improv - Danielle Tisdale

Improv was hard for me. I am comfortable with talking in front of children, but I still struggle with it in front of adults. Improv forced me out of my shell and made me grow more comfortable speaking in front of adults, but it is still hard for me. I need to keep growing in that area, but I personally felt like improv was too far out of my comfort zone to be as helpful as it could’ve been. I also think that while some of the improv activities were fun, but I personally felt very out of my depth trying to come up with ideas or scenes out of the blue. I think for me, it would’ve been more helpful to work on improvising with things based on our exhibits or some of the field trip programs we have. As a Spark, we always have a basic idea of how our exhibits work so we won’t need to come up with something out of the blue like we had to for improv. Even in other careers, unless we go into improv, we probably won’t need to completely improvise something. It seemed to me to be over preparation for something that probably won’t happen. Overall, I think it was probably more beneficial to me than I am giving it credit for, but it was also difficult and a little stressful. The best part about improv was getting to know the other Sparks better and playing some of the games.